edit: Sources say the player is Jovan Belcher. Police have yet to confirm.

An unnamed Kansas City Chiefs player has committed suicide at the team facility and authorities are on the scene, the police confirmed to ESPN on Saturday morning.

Local reports say police are operating with the belief the player fatally shot his girlfriend at a house before driving to Arrowhead Stadium and killing himself at around 8 a.m local time. The Associated Press reported the player's age to be 25.

"We can confirm that there was an incident at Arrowhead earlier this morning," the Chiefs said in a statement. "We are cooperating with authorities in their investigation."

There were no other injuries at the team facility, police said.

The Chiefs (1-10) were preparing to host the Carolina Panthers on Sunday.

The NFL has told the Panthers to travel as planned to Kansas City on Saturday, the Charlotte Observer has reported, citing interim general manager Brandon Beane.

Okay, Jenson, give it your all: Please explain to us why ESPN, who has contractually agreed to spend $1.9 billion a year to broadcast Monday Night Football, would allow the NFL to randomly broadcast another game on Monday night.

Go.

Firms vary their agreements all the time to allow for certain circumstances. Perhaps ESPN would require some form of compensation. You might know this, being the awesome businessman that you are.

In the end, that's what makes the legal discussion relevant. There's a circumstance where society, through the legal system, has decided that someone should be given a slight break for what he's done.

Voluntary manslaughter is an acknowledgment of human frailty. Of the idea that people who will go on a message board and SWEAR they would never hurt a women...might, because history has shown that ordinary, rational, reasonable people have been known to do just that.

I'd like to believe that Jovan Belcher was an ordinary, rational, reasonable person that snapped because the alternative is even worse.

I guess that makes me a dumbass or something. Or maybe my screen name does. Shit, I can't keep these things straight.

Well, human frailty or trying to do the best we can with the information we can gather to try a person for the totality of a situation. We can't just say murder is murder and every murderer deserves death, too many other factors that come into play need to be considered.

Look man, moving games is clearly hard work but it can be done. Dane started off by telling us it couldn't, then when reminded that it had previously been done, he changed his story. Fairly typical for him, really.

Okay, Jenson, give it your all: Please explain to us why ESPN, who has contractually agreed to spend $1.9 billion a year to broadcast Monday Night Football, would allow the NFL to randomly broadcast another game on Monday night.

Go.

To make joke here, ESPN probably wouldn't give a shit because they know everyone will tune in to watch Giants/Redskins over Panthers/Chiefs.

Okay, Jenson, give it your all: Please explain to us why ESPN, who has contractually agreed to spend $1.9 billion a year to broadcast Monday Night Football, would allow the NFL to randomly broadcast another game on Monday night.

Go.

Again, nobody has really argued that it has to be rescheduled for Monday night. Please keep in mind that you were the one that tried to drive this home after it was pointed out that games have been rescheduled.

1) because the contract may allow for regional broadcasts on Monday night
2) because contract law may allow this to be unforeseeable circumstance that allows for nonperformance
3) because I don't think ESPN can get a court to file an injunction on the NFL to prevent their having another game on Monday night (broadcasted or not)